A 27-year-old Petersburg woman has been extradited to Florida after investigators said forensic testing tied her to three threatening letters aimed at a state representative, a Sarasota County judge, and a Miami-Dade sheriff's employee. She now faces three felony counts involving threats of sexual assault and murder.
Jasmyn Osborne was extradited on July 16 and booked into the Collier County Jail, authorities said. The cases span Collier, Sarasota, and Miami-Dade counties, putting three Florida prosecutorial offices in the same investigation.
According to Tampa Free Press, the investigation began in June 2025 after a Florida state representative and a Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office employee received letters containing threats. A Sarasota County judge later received a similar letter, and Florida Department of Law Enforcement laboratories reportedly confirmed Osborne wrote all three. FDLE obtained an arrest warrant in Collier County on March 19, 2026, and Virginia authorities arrested Osborne in Petersburg.
The case also required an interstate extradition process rather than a routine Florida booking. The Commonwealth of Virginia says extradition can be used to return people charged with crimes in another state, with formal requests and gubernatorial warrants part of the process when Virginia serves as the asylum state.
Florida Law Treats Written Threats As Felonies
Florida Statute 836.10 makes it a second-degree felony to send, post, or transmit a writing or electronic record threatening to kill or cause bodily harm, according to the Florida Senate. The law covers letters as well as electronic communications that can be viewed by another person. The charges against Osborne remain allegations, and a criminal filing is not a finding of guilt.
The extradition comes amid other Florida cases involving threats sent from outside the state. In May, the Office of the State Attorney for Florida's 18th Judicial Circuit said Virginia man Jacob Devan pleaded no contest to threatening to kill Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey and received five years of supervised probation, a social-media ban, and other restrictions.
Hoodline previously covered that case, in which prosecutors said Devan's threats were sent through Facebook messages. Osborne's case remains active, and Tampa Free Press reported that she is expected to be extradited again to Sarasota County and Miami-Dade County to face the charges filed there.
